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Note to Anxious Contributors: Jacket 39 filled up so fast that a great deal of material has been held over for Jacket 40, which will appear through April into July 2010. Please endeavour to see this enforced delay as a wonderful opportunity to practice the virtues of patience and calm-mindfulness. You might also like to spend the time seeking an English rhyme for “orange”: those who succeed will be guaranteed literary immortality, of a kind.
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